When did the confusion between vulvodynia and vaginismus start?

Pedro Vieira-Baptista^{1

2}, Koray Görkem Saçıntı^{3

4}, Mario Preti⁵, Hans Verstraelen⁶, Jacob Bornstein^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Hospital Lusíadas Porto, Porto, Portugal.
² Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatrics, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto - FMUP, Porto, Portugal.
³ Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aksaray University Training and Research Hospital, Aksaray, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
⁶ Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
⁷ The Research Institute of Galilee Medical Center, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel.
⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University, Nahariya, Israel.

Pedro Vieira-Baptista et al. J Turk Ger Gynecol Assoc. 2024.

. 2024 Aug 29;25(3):189-191.

doi: 10.4274/jtgga.galenos.2024.2024-8-12.

Pedro Vieira-Baptista^{1

2}, Koray Görkem Saçıntı^{3

4}, Mario Preti⁵, Hans Verstraelen⁶, Jacob Bornstein^{7

8}

¹ Hospital Lusíadas Porto, Porto, Portugal.
² Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pediatrics, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto - FMUP, Porto, Portugal.
³ Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aksaray University Training and Research Hospital, Aksaray, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
⁶ Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
⁷ The Research Institute of Galilee Medical Center, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel.
⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University, Nahariya, Israel.

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